A bit of a depressing endorsement, although I don't know that I can blame you, since the options seem pretty bad. How can Steyer be "pro-housing" when he is so opposed by the people building housing. I don't really understand what's going on there, and I'm afraid that it's yet another case of someone talking constantly about how important housing is, while not actually supporting any policies that will make it easier to build housing.
I mean, a lot of developers also are Republicans and supported Trump, who proceeded to make their materials and labor drastically more expensive. People aren't always completely rational about this stuff. Or, put another way, they may be prioritizing something other than their pure economic interests.
I dunno, the developers I have met, they seem like they really like to make money. My take is that none of these candidates are pro-housing, so housing developers don't really have any plausible candidate to support.
In California, supporting a Republican is basically the same as not voting. It's like giving up entirely. Therefore I find this news depressing, that YIMBY groups cannot even agree with housing developers on what to do, politically. Housing developers should be the EASIEST of any group to find common ground with.
California Republicans are pretty terrible on housing, for the most part, and definitely the ones who ran for gov this year are bad. They don't want Texas-style deregulation, they want the right to preserve suburban fortresses against anyone changing anything ever. See: Huntington Beach.
And again: If people were remotely rational about this stuff, you wouldn't have seen any developers voting for the guy who was promising to tariff their materials, deport a bunch of their workers, and scare a bunch more of their workers into hiding. Yet here we are.
A bit of a depressing endorsement, although I don't know that I can blame you, since the options seem pretty bad. How can Steyer be "pro-housing" when he is so opposed by the people building housing. I don't really understand what's going on there, and I'm afraid that it's yet another case of someone talking constantly about how important housing is, while not actually supporting any policies that will make it easier to build housing.
I mean, a lot of developers also are Republicans and supported Trump, who proceeded to make their materials and labor drastically more expensive. People aren't always completely rational about this stuff. Or, put another way, they may be prioritizing something other than their pure economic interests.
I dunno, the developers I have met, they seem like they really like to make money. My take is that none of these candidates are pro-housing, so housing developers don't really have any plausible candidate to support.
In California, supporting a Republican is basically the same as not voting. It's like giving up entirely. Therefore I find this news depressing, that YIMBY groups cannot even agree with housing developers on what to do, politically. Housing developers should be the EASIEST of any group to find common ground with.
California Republicans are pretty terrible on housing, for the most part, and definitely the ones who ran for gov this year are bad. They don't want Texas-style deregulation, they want the right to preserve suburban fortresses against anyone changing anything ever. See: Huntington Beach.
And again: If people were remotely rational about this stuff, you wouldn't have seen any developers voting for the guy who was promising to tariff their materials, deport a bunch of their workers, and scare a bunch more of their workers into hiding. Yet here we are.